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Feature: Extreme Search and Rescue 33 the Lifeboat Is Published (Our Times a Year and Is Sent Tree to RNLI Member* and Governors Winter For everyone who helps save lives at sea 2003/04 SAP code-LBM035 Working together Extreme search and rescue in the Shetland Islands Thank you! RNLI fundraising plans gather momentum "If I thanked the lifeboatmen every day for the rest of my life, it would still not be enough for bringing him back." Mrs Rose McRoy, whose husband Jim was rescued by Sunderland inshore lifeboat < There is a way that says it all. The Royal National Lifeboat Institution If you would like to remember the lifeboat depends entirely on voluntary donations and crews in your Wilt, please send for our legacies to run the lifeboats that save lives legacy information pack today. You'll receive at sea. With more than 220 lifeboat useful and practical advice about making or stations around the shores of the United updating your Will. Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, it costs around £274,000 a day to keep the Send now for your free lifeboat service running. information pack and discover how a gift in your Will can help Six out of ten Lifeboat volunteer lifeboat crews. launches are only possible thanks to legacies. D Please send me your legacy information pack. Please return this form to: John Marshall, Legacy Enquiries Officer, Volunteer lifeboat crews give their time to RNLI. FREEPOST (BH173), West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1XF. Thank you. save others in danger. They ask for no reward Title Forename other than the satisfaction of a 'good job Surname well done'. They deserve the best boats, Address equipment and training. You can help make sure they continue to receive them, with a legacy gift in your Will. Postcode ioui dtiMi»« bt uwd by ilw SHU md pw*d to Lifeboats RM.I ritding fompinm Qfty If you do n« W*X to K<tr*t rMormjiion tbour otTttr *4yi to mop**1 lh* «NU. Mew »k hm. D W* IBJ03/12 Registered Chanty No Z09603 DPA Allhougfl this is i grume r*Mu*. sutetilutn hfit bwn ui*d m the photograph lo omt«l confidentiality Winter 2003/04 lifeboat Lifeboats Feature: The RNLI thanks you 2 The magazine of the The RNLI stepped into 2003 with renewed fundraising Royal National Lifeboat Institution vigour. We bring you up to date on our progress Registered Charity Number 209603 Couple snatched to safety Feature: We ask the questions 6 from a grounded yacht. Issue 566 The Lifeboat finds out how the RNLI's heritage will be Page 26 Chairman: protected for future generations Peter Nicholson Chief Executive: Andrew Freemantle MBE Feature: International rescue 8 Publications Manager: Jane Smythson An update from the International Lifeboat Federation Publications Editor: Liz Cook Assistant Editors: Jon Jones, Bethany Rawles News 9 Designer: Laura Wiltshire All the latest (torn and about the RNLI Editorial: Joanna Lumley presents Tel: 01202 662254 Letters 16 the RNLI with a special Fax: 01202 663189 award. Page 11 email: [email protected] Questions, answers and members' own stories Membership and subscriptions: Tel: 01202 663234 Books 21 email: [email protected] Advertising: Madison Bell Limited Lifeboats and lifeguards in action 22 Beau Nash House, Union Passage, More stories from the sharp end BathBAI 1RD Display: Steve Hulbert Tel: 01225 465060 Feature: Come see the show 30 email: [email protected] Lifeboats from around Classified: Why is the London Boat Show so special in 2004? the world. Page 8 NatalieWalker TeL'01225 465060 email: [email protected] Feature: Extreme search and rescue 33 The Lifeboat is published (our times a year and is sent tree to RNLI member* and governors. The next issue Nicholas Leach looks at how Shetland lifeboats work will be Spring 2004 and will appear in April 2004. closely with other agencies to avert shipping disasters News items should be received by 16 February but earlier if possible. All material submitted for possible publication should be addressed to: The Editor, the Lifeboat, RNLI, West Quay Road, Fundraising 37 Poole. Dorset BH1S1HZ. How some of the money is raised Photographs intended fw return should be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope. Could RNLI SKI rescue ever Contributions may be held for subsequent issues. Listings Centre take off? Page 43 For further information on how to join Ihe RNLI as a Check your local station in this pull-out section member or governor contact: Membership, RNLI, West Quay Road, Poole. Dorset BH151HZ.TH 0800543210, The Lifeboat is published by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, West Quay Road, Poole, Dorset BH15 1HZ Front cover Tel: 01202 663000, www.lifeboats.org.uk, email: [email protected], Printed by Pindar pic, Scarborough. Aith's Severn Class lifeboat Owrtej Udbury is put © Royal National Lifeboat Institution 2004. All rights reserved. Reproduction is permitted with the prior consent of the RNLI, through her paces. See our feature on page 33 to find out more about the work of Shetland lifeboats Opinions expressed by authors are not necessarily those of the publishers. Care is taken to ensure that editorial information is Photo: Nicholas Leach/Stvpt Monthly, by courtesy of correct at the time of going to press but is subject to change. Shetland MRSC Inset: Branch volunteers help support the Lifeboats. Any products or services advertised in the Lifeboat by third parties are not in any way endorsed by the RNLI and the RNLI shall Seepage4 not be responsible for the accuracy of any information contained in such advertisements nor has it investigated or verified any of the information. The RNLI thanks you! The Christmas break may already seem like a distant memory but readers will know that, while they were tucking into their turkey, ***v many volunteer Lifeboat crews had given up the comfort and safety of home to save the Lives of others in coLd and stormy weather. One hot August weekend lifeboats launched around 200 times. With the This was made possible by average launch cost for an all weather boat being £5,800 and £2,200 for an your generosity inflatable, the two days cost the RNLi Severn class lifeboat Spirit of Guernsey tackles rough seas off St Peter Port almost £700,000 for launches alone Photo. Brian Green it's not just the bad weather that keeps time last year the RNLI also reported a also concentrating on building long-term lifeboat crews busy - last year lifeboat crews worrying downturn in legacies and relationships with the public to assure the and lifeguards had the busiest summer in membership numbers, and a significant drop future of the lifeboat service. We want to re- the RNLI's 180-year history. Lifeguards dealt in public awareness of the RNLI and what awaken people to the breadth of the RNLI's with 7,226 incidents, saving 27 lives in the it does. work. The service is relevant to far more process. One especially hot August weekend people than just 'boaties1 and we want to saw lifeboats tackling some 200 shouts in Membership bring peace of mind to anyone who finds just two days. Of course, in order for crews themselves at sea - whether they are on a to carry out this vital lifesaving work they cross channel ferry or enjoying a dip at the So what can be done about this? The good need the right tools for the job: cutting edge beach.' news is that work has already begun to turn lifeboats and equipment, high quality The renewed membership drive has this around. The RNLI has set itself an boathouse and crew facilities, and the finest already produced some fantastic results in ambitious target to double membership over training. But what does this all cost? the last year. Shoreline and Offshore inserts the next five years. This is no pipedream but Last year it cost around £ 107M to run in boating and general interest magazines, a carefully planned strategy. the lifeboat service - that's £290,000 a day. together with mailing campaigns to non- This is a huge amount but it actually members, led to the recruitment of 26,000 represents excellent value for money. For RNLI members and regular supporters new members in 2003 - that's 86% up on every £1 spent, 81 pence goes direct to the number recruited in 2002. There was a maintaining and replacing the existing fleet, further push in October and December and Actual purchasing new equipment or shore the RNLI hopes this will recruit an additional facilities, Beach Lifeguards and Sea Safety. 30,000 new members and donors. But this is Sixteen pence is used for fundraising and just the beginning. only three pence goes on administration. 'Reaching new and younger audiences is Any surplus is held in a reserve fund and also very important and we need to used to guarantee the RNLI's boat building capitalise on Beach Lifeguards and new programme and other capital projects. technology to excite the new generation' Until recently these reserves were TOO 1001 2<W 2003 ZOOJ MM JCO* MOT says Chris. In a bid to get these audiences looking healthy, thanks to your generosity onside, RNLI fundraising branched out to the and support. But as a result of a continued Head of Central Fundraising and beaches last summer with a scheme to weakness in the stock markets, especially Communications, Chris Rhodes says: 'We encourage regular support for its lifeguards. since 11 September 2001, RNLI investments have been looking at new and innovative Around 350 new supporters have been fell dramatically, leaving reserves at the ways to raise funds. Short-term fundraising is recruited so far, each paying a minimum of lowest level allowable by the trustees. This absolutely vital to the service but we are £2 a month.
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